Blumenthal after getting briefed on Iran: "We seem to be on a path toward deploying American troops on the ground in Iran to accomplish any of the potential objectives here. There's also the specter of active Russian aid to Iran putting in danger American lives ... China also may be assisting Iran"
This is just astonishingly great reporting.
All of the crises the White House has claimed over the last 14 months were planned in advance. All of them.
And however much contempt you have for media outlets who reverently relayed Trump's claim to have no relation to Project 2025, it isn't enough.
A tree lined path with falling leaves. Credit: OSU
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Seattle Women's March www.capitolhillseattle.com/2026/03/stop...
Cardinal McElroy: “The criterion of just cause is not met because our country was not responding to an existing or imminent and objectively verifiable attack by Iran.” www.cathstan.org/us-world/in-...
VATICAN: “Pope Leo XIV expresses profound sorrow for all the victims of the bombings of these days in the Middle East, for the many innocents, including many children, and for those who were providing them aid, such as Father Pierre El-Rahi, a Maronite priest killed this afternoon in Qlayaa.”
Breaking NYT:
Two teenage brothers and mariachi stars who visited the White House last summer were just released with their family from ICE detention centers in South Texas — immediately following the visit of a delegation of Democratic lawmakers who pressed for them to be freed.
goddamn is this a breath of fresh air after Allred 2024
Moderate Democrats with columns in newspapers are constantly saying the Democratic Party is way too liberal on "social" issues. Moderate Democratic voters in real life do not feel this way. With some polling data from @gelliottmorris.com and @dataforprogress.org. newrepublic.com/article/2074...
This is not true—driver’s licenses aren’t acceptable under the SAVE Act without additional proof of citizenship. The fact that they keep doing this sleight of hand should make clear that the SAVE Act is not something that “every American gets”
The Trump admin tried to use emergency rulemaking to erase the Board of Immigration Appeals, requiring that basically all appeals (which cost $1,000 to file!) be summarily dismissed without any review.
Thanks to our @immcouncil.org legal team and others, the rule is now BLOCKED!
I can't compete with this.
We need your drone interceptors for our war, but we won’t thank you and our propaganda will claim that we made them.
As a longtime advocate for a US-led ice giant mission, I’m simultaneously disappointed (from a US perspective) and delighted (from a basic science perspective)
"I considered going to a protest downtown. But that seemed a little far, so I am crossing the ocean to Europe."
A 3,000 year old Bronze Age mould used to cast spearheads has been discovered under a barn in southeastern Moravia, Czech Republic.
📷Marek Hensl, Czech Radio
english.radio.cz/stone-found-...
MYTH: These attacks will lead to retaliatory strikes on U.S. citizens. FACT: Wait, shit, really?
Trump’s War On Iran: Myth Vs. Fact https://theonion.com/trumps-war-on-iran-myth-vs-fact/
Seattle friends, keep an eye out.
It’s just so shameful and cruel.
It’s so hard to comprehend the fact that there are still millions of Fox-addled Americans who still support this wicked administration, and somehow believe that locking up talented children is protecting us from criminal invaders.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/u...
UPDATE: BBC Verify RT’s Bellingcat’s post with video of a missile dropping on the facility where the girls’ school was located - the missile matches 🇺🇸 tomahawks and “appears to contradict Trump’s claim” it was Iran 🤔
New from Bellingcat - New photos released by the Israeli Air Force show a bomb not previously seen in Israeli service. Analysis suggests it’s a 2,000-lb class bomb fitted with a JDAM guidance kit, with markings indicating a possible incendiary component.
www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...
Stoic Kristi Noem Bears Firing With Stiff Upper Lip, Chin, Cheeks, Forehead
Stoic Kristi Noem Bears Firing With Stiff Upper Lip, Chin, Cheeks, Forehead
So according to the WSJ a US Senator conspired with another country to manipulate the US into starting a war, am I getting this right
Seattle:
nyt website currently resembles one of those mock covers people made before 2016 election: economy floundering, war in the middle east, scandal-plagued cabinet sec, brazen corruption....
My new blog post on Starlink, Iran and drones: tmfassociates.com/blog/2026/03...
Ready, Set, Collide 💥
The Large Hadron Collider (#LHC) is gearing up to resume proton collisions. In this concluding physics run of #LHCRun3, proton beams will once again be delivered to the LHC experiments.
Here's one less threat to worry about ... or one less cosmic fireworks show to look forward to: NASA has ruled out any chance that an asteroid called 2024 Y4 will hit the moon in 2032. cosmiclog.com/2026/03/05/p... H/T @coreyspowell.bsky.social
A picture of PEW poll on global attitude survey, saying the % who rate the morality and ethics of people in their country as good vs bad, where the US has the worst rankings and Canada the best
Americans: we live in a fallen state—embroiled by sin, cheating, lying, and evil. You cannot trust anyone, not even those who claim to know you best
Canadians: I love my neighbors and my friends!
